2016 Best of Dayton Underground – Official Round 1 Polling Results!

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A very rocky Christmas | Dayton City Paper

A very rocky Christmas | Dayton City Paper with Abertooth Lincoln

Abertooth Lincoln: Setting Their Sights On New Target In 2014

Abertooth Lincoln’s bassist Andrew Humphrey is running a little late.  Humphrey currently lives in Oxford, which is about an hour from the band’s headquarters in Dayton.  The rest of the band, Jacob Gandert on vocals, guitarist James Lampe, Josh Gandert on sax/keyboards, and drummer Mike Werthmann are already where we all agreed to meet up, which is where the band lives and practices.  It is one of the most beautiful nights that has graced the Dayton area in the past few months.  The weather has been miserable around the Dayton area, with the amount of snow that equals to what most mountain regions receive.

I met up with the band outside of the meeting place, which was located a little outside of town.    As soon as Humphrey arrived, he quickly apologized for being a little late.  Driving an hour to come and meet up with everyone and also practice shouldn’t call for being sorry.  The band and myself entered the home, and quickly opened up the windows.  This was an evening that shouldn’t be wasted with the cool air swirling around outside.

 It was just four years ago when Abertooth Lincoln formed.   At that time Werthmann, and Lampe were just coming out of  their previous band, He Laughs He Learns He Loves.  Along with Caleab Wyant (keyboard, vocals), Eric Rieper (sounds,  vocals) and Matt Conner (bass), He Laughs He Learns He Loves just dropped their long awaited full length album which  was titled Say Yes To Everything.  The album, which featured a heavy concoction of electronica, punk and metal in each  of the songs, took over three years to be produced and then be released.  The making of the album took its toll on  everyone involved.  Becoming burnt out with playing the songs they recorded to the point where they hated them,  disagreements, along with the direction of the band gave everyone the conclusion that it was time to move on.  Shortly  after the album release party concluded, He Laughs He Learns He Loves called it quits.  “We spent way too long on one  project”, says Lampe.  “When it was finally done (the album) that now we can listen to and think it sounds cool, but by  the time it came out we all couldn’t stand it.”

Abertooth Lincoln Seeks Funding For New Album

Abertooth Lincoln
Hello all of our friends! We are pleased to announce that we are making our first full length album this summer!!! The album will be released as a digital download and on vinyl.

We are putting all that we can into this album, because we’r…e thrilled to have this opportunity and we want to make the absolute best record we can. We’re writing a lot of new music and we can’t wait to share it with all of you.

We need your help to make this record. We don’t like asking for contributions, but if there was ever a time in our existence that we felt made the most sense to do so it would be now. We’ve always been able to fund whatever we do on our own, but this is a big step and we need your support. We’ve made tons of great friends since we started hosting shows at The Aberplex, and we know we can count on you all to help us out!

Also, you won’t just get a hug and a kiss for helping- we’ve included a lot of “perks” for those who lend a hand. We have shirts and shotglasses, a comic book about the Beef Battalion, and you can even preorder the new album.

Again, thanks for all of your help so far. You’ve all been a part of a wonderful community for us to thrive in, and we appreciate each of you for that. If contributing isn’t easy to do right now, help us spread the word and share this post. Golly it’d mean a lot to us.

Let’s have an awesome summer!
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-abertooth-lincoln-make-a-record/x/2875991